Jetpack has been downloaded nearly eight million times since its debut on WordPress.org. If you’ve enjoyed using Jetpack and have some ideas for improving it, github is a great way to contribute back to the plugin. Your code will improve the Jetpack experience on millions of websites. There are also other ways to contribute without writing any code:

Let’s face it. Nobody springs from the womb understanding how to create a good bug report or submit a patch. That’s why guides like this are so important. Getting involved on a smaller project like Jetpack is an opportunity to test your wings in an area where you have an interest. If you have an open source project where you want to attract more contributors, consider creating a detailed, organized guide in the same way Jetpack has outlined contribution opportunities. That little extra effort in documentation might open up the floodgates to contributions.

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@George Stephanis – There’s so much valuable info in there, though, that could be applied to almost any project, ie. writing good bug reports for the issues tracker, using SVN, etc. So will you be dumping the Jetpack trac then and using github exclusively?